Stomach-churning footage shows a specialist removing a wax-covered pen cap that was lodged in a patient’s ear for years.

YouTube sensation Neel Raithatha, aka The Wax Whisperer, who runs The Hear Clinic in Oadby, Leicestershire, said: ‘I was shocked as at first I was unaware of what the object was. It is the worst item I have seen stuck to date.’

Buried deep in the unnamed patient’s ear canal, footage shows Mr Raithatha using forceps to dislodge the waxy object, before presenting it to the camera.

Mr Raithatha said: ‘The patient advised he must have accidentally dislodged the bottom end of a pen inside his ear as he had a habit of scratching the inside of his ear canal using the back of a pen.’

The patient was referred to Mr Raithatha after being unable to have his ear syringed due to the mysterious blockage.

A patient was referred to The Wax Whisperer after a pen cap became lodged in his ear

Neel Raithatha used forceps to remove the waxy cap, which he presented to the camera

Eardrum not affected

Mr Raithatha said: ‘The patient visited his local nurse for ear syringing but they were unable to perform due to a foreign object being lodged inside his ear canal.

‘He was subsequently referred to see myself for treatment.

‘The eardrum was fortunately not affected as it was lodged near the entrance of his ear canal.

‘It took less than a minute.’

It is unclear how the patient has recovered or whether his hearing was affected.

The Wax Whisperer said the pen cap ‘is the worst item I have seen stuck to date’

The footage ends with the camera showing the inside of the patient’s very waxy ear canal